Ryan supervisors plan hearing for Mountain Valley rezoning

BARNESVILLE – Ryan Township Supervisors will formally consider rezoning a portion of the township near Interstate 81 and the Burma Road from rural residential to industrial.

Much of the property in question currently houses the Mountain Valley Golf Course.

Ryan Township will convene a public hearing at 6pm Monday, Feb. 9 at the township building at the end of North 5th Avenue in Barnesville.

Notices were posted around the properties, including near Back Road, as required by state law.

The properties are owned by Mountain Valley Corporation and Yudacot Limited Partnership, consisting of the Mountain Valley Golf Course and some surrounding property on either side of the Burma Road.

It also includes a large parcel that stretches from the eastern portion of the golf course along the mountainside between residences on Back Road.

Representatives of the two companies originally approached township supervisors in August at a meeting only covered by ShenSentinel.

At the time, they said the move is to “make the course uniform to enable us to be prepared for the future.”

The mountainside portion of land behind Back Road was also shown as excluded from the zoning change in a map presented at the time.

The zoning change would add industrial-zoned land adjacent to the growing Mahanoy Business Park, where warehouses have been built on the former Bendinsky Airport property.

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